Sanitary ventilated dish-mop.



WILLARD M00. REID, 0F EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO REID-GEISLERMANUFAC- TUBIN G 00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

SANITARY VENTILATED DISH-MOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1, 1919-.

Application filed .Tune 8, 1918. Serial No. 238,810.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD MoC. REID, a citizen of the United States,residing at Evanston, in the county of Cook and State .of Illinois, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sanitary VentilatedDish-Mops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mops used in washing dishes, the same asordinarily sold in the trade, comprising a wooden handle with a swab ofcotton threads tied thereto. As ordinarily constructed, the device isapt to become unsanitary in use due to the fact that portions of mopmaterial proper which come in contact with the wooden handle have littlechance to dry out and consequently become sour, with consequentunpleasant odor and other unsanitary results. The object of thisinvention is to so construct the mop that air can pass through thecenter of the swab or mop body proper, to assist in drying it out andrendering it sanitary. The invention consists in means for carrying outthe foregoing objects which can be easily and cheaply made; which issatisfactory in operation and not readily liable to get out of order.More in detail, the invention consists in the features and details ofconstruction which will be here after more fully set forth in thespecification and claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar numerals indicate the sameparts throughout the several views- Figure 1 is a sideview of a mophaving the device of this invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a central sectional view through the attaching portion of themop handle, illustrating the device in detail.

In constructing the device of this inven tion, an ordinary cylindricalhandle 10 is provided to whichthe mop member 12 is to be attached.Instead of attaching the mop 12 directly to the handle, as has been theusual practice heretofore, a metallic tubular member 14 is provided,preferably having formed upon it two circular ridges 16 and 18,constructed approximately as shown. Into one end of this tubular member14 is fitted the more or less contracted end portion 20 of the handle10, the same being secured in place by any suitable means, such forinstance as pin or rivet 22. The remaining portion of the tubular member14 and particularly that portion between the ridges l6 and 18, isprovided with a large number of perforations 24 of sufiicient size sothat air can readily pass through them. About the tubular member 14 andover these perforations 24 is placed a mop member 12, secured in placeby any suitable means, as for instance by a band 26. This band may beplaced at any point, but is preferably located as shown intermediate ofthe length of the perforated portion of the tubular member-14 so thatair may pass through and around the mop material and through the holes24 to the central interior passageway 28 of the tubular member. Theupper edges 30 of the mop member 12, being thus free to bend away fromthe upper portion of the tubular member 14, thus making a clear passagethrough the upper holes '24 for this ventilating purpose.

In the operation of the device, the mop is used in the ordinary manner,whereupon it is either hung up by any suitable means not shown, in thevertical position shown in the drawing, with the result that the tubularmember 14 holds the central portions 32 of the mop in separated positionpart for part, as shown in Fig. 2 so that air can pass up through thecenter of the mop, thence through the holes 24, through and around themop material on the exterior of the handle, in the obvious manner and asheretofore described, or the mop can be inverted so that the mopmaterial falls away from the end of the tube 14, leaving entrance topassage 28 wide open with obvious results.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device ofthe class described, in combination with a body of mopmaterial, a perforated tubular member inserted inside the body of saidmop material in such a way that air can pass through said tubular memberand the perforations therein into the mop material for the purpose ofobtaining ventilation of the complete mop and a handle device connectedto the tubularmember, for the purposes set forth.

2. In a device of the class described, a tubular member, a handleentering one end of the tubular member, for a portion of the In Witnesswhereof, I have hereunto sublength thereof, means securing the handle toscribed my name in the presence of two W1tthe tubular member, a body ofmop matenesses.

rial attached to the tubular member beyond WILLARD MoC. REID. 5 the endof the handle, there being p'erfora- Witnesses-z tions in the tubularmember surrounded DWIGHT B. CHEEVER,"

by the mop for the purposes set forth. M. S. ROSENZWEIG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

